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NORTH HARBOUR NEWS, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
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Getting down to business
RESULTS
2011 Westpac Auckland North Business Awards winners:
3M Excellence in Innovation Award: Apollo Entertainment,
ACC Excellence in Workplace Safety Award: Babcock Fitzroy,
Actionmail Excellence in Marketing Award: Windowmakers,
Auckland Chamber of Commerce Best Emerging Business
Award: Ecoflow, Benefitz Best Startup Business Award:
Spice n Easy,
Blackcat Consulting Employer of Choice Award:
Naylor Love Construction, EasiYo Excellence in Exporting
Award: Modtec Industries, Massey University Excellence in
Sustainability Award: MW Cleaning Services, Ministry of
Science and Innovation Excellence in Design, Research and
Development Award: AFT Pharmaceuticals, Mitre 10
Excellence in Service Delivery Award: Lexel Systems, North
Shore Times Excellence in Not for Profit Award: Bruce
Mason Centre, Spyglass Excellence in Technology Award:
Apollo Entertainment, Westpac Supreme Business
Excellence Award: AFT Pharmaceuticals.
Exporting excellence, above:
Silverdale's Modtec Industries
representatives George
Fernandes, Wade Brownlee,
Abhijit Roy, Bruce Davies and Ian
Cooper with their trophy
presented by award sponsor
Sandra Sweetman and Paul
O'Brien of EasiYo.
Two awards, left: Chris Hart,
left, and Duncan MacMillan of
Apollo Entertainment in
Whangaparaoa, with award
sponsor Ah-Leen Rayner of 3M
New Zealand. Apollo won
excellence in technology and
innovation awards.
Marketing award: Window-
makers' Heidi Johnston, left,
and Bruce Johnston, right,
receive their award from
Brenden and Toni Rolsten of
Actionmail.
THE 2011 Westpac Auckland
North Business Awards
winners included two
Silverdale firms and one
Whangaparaoa business.
Apollo Entertainment of
Whangaparaoa, specialising
in 12-volt entertainment
systems for motorhomes,
caravans and boats won the
Spyglass Excellence in Tech-
nology Award and the 3M
Excellence in Innovation
Award.
Silverdale engineering and
manufacturing firm Modtec
Industries won the EasiYo
Excellence in Exporting
Award. Windowmakers, also
of Silverdale, won the Action-
mail Excellence in Marketing
Award, particularly for its
showroom of aluminium
windows and doors.
A Takapuna drug company
claimed top honours. AFT
Pharmaceuticals won the
overall Westpac Supreme
Business Excellence Award
after earlier winning the
Ministry of Science and Inno-
vation Excellence in Design,
Research and Development
Award.
More than 620 local busi-
ness people gathered at the
North Shore Events Centre to
celebrate this year's winners
and recognise successful
north Auckland businesses.
Congratulations to all the
winners,'' Auckland mayor
Len Brown says. It is great
to see these businesses
sharing their stories with the
local community and revel-
ling in their success.
These awards continue to
showcase the enormous
amount of business skill and
success that flows throughout
north Auckland and the
whole region. Each winner
epitomises the innovation,
productivity, flair, talent and
ambition that Auckland
needs to capitalise on to be a
force on the global stage.''
Congratulating AFT and
category winners, Westpac's
general manager business
banking Ian Blair says the
local community will benefit
from the businesses' success.
Auckland Tourism, Events
and Economic Development
facilitates the awards, and
manager business develop-
ment north Ngaio Merrick
says it is a fantastic sign that
the winners represent a host
of industries from the north
Auckland area. It not only
shows diversity, but consist-
ency of business excellence.''
Sister papers the Rodney
Times and North Shore Times
are award sponsors.